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This page chronicles my experiences designing, building, installing and using the carputer. The reason I'm doing this is in case anyone else wants to do something similar. I want to let others learn from my mistakes and experiences (this works, this didn't, this fried, etc). And yes, I blatantly ripped off my old camryamp site to make this one. It's my own work, so it's not plagiarism, right?
- 19 Aug 2004
OK, so I've finally decided to get back into the carputer scene. I found a hell of a deal on a 7" TFT touschreen on ebay, and I've still got the remains of CamryAmp v2.0 (which never saw the light of day). I've been meaning to install a carputer into the miata ever since i bought the car, but I just haven't had the time. I'm getting tired of lugging my laptop with me everywhere, and while it's spiffy looking, passengers tire of having a hot laptop on their lap, and I tire of picking the laptop up off the floor every time I have to hit the brakes hard. Nevermind the big theft concern in a convertible with a laptop there... So I'll be working on this as time permits between work and play.
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- 21 Aug 2004
I got the screen in the mail. It looks like it'll be a nearly perfect fit for the double-din opening where the radio was. One problem. The damn screen doesn't work! GAH! I emailed the seller yesterday, and haven't got a response back yet. We'll see what happens.
Also, after doing more reading on the MP3car.com Forums, I have decided to change my power setup. I was originally using a desktop power supply and inverter in camryamp, and was going to do the same in mx5pc at first, but now i've decided to go straight dc-dc. I found the Carnetix CNX-P1260 power supply, which is a good high power 12VDC regulator with some nifty timers in it. It doesn't have a 5V rail, but I can fix that... check out my thread on the mp3car forum about power supplies. All I will need outside the carnetix and the 5v regulator will be a couple relays and switches to do the "fake UPS" and also a switch to be able to turn on the PC without the ignition on, so I can do stuff like connect to the home network to update files, rip a cd, or whatever else I may need/want to do.
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